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CVE-2018-6253

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.

Affected products

• Nvidia Corporation GPU Display Driver: all versions

References

• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522
• http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3662-1/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522

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